wireless expectations FC3T2

[D. Stolte]

Harry Putnam schrieb:
> Peter wrote:
> 
>> Am Mo, den 20.09.2004 schrieb D. Stolte um 14:21:
>>
>>> if it is
>>> atheros based then you will need the madwifi driver from CVS because it
>>> is still in development. some yum repositories already offer the madwifi
>>> package so it should be a no brainer to get this card working. you will
>>> not get any redhat support though.
>>
>>
>>
>> and expect it to be broken sometimes. I had a lot of difficulties with
>> some kernel releases/kernel updates and some cvs state of madwifi, ACPI,
>> Interrupt sharing, etc.
>>
>> If you have a choice you should avoid atheros for now until the driver
>> is in a better shape.
> 
> 
> I guess there is always a choice.. if I want to eat the cost.  What 
> card[s] have the best support?  Where I could just expect it to work 
> like my older pcmcia (non-wireless netgear) cards do?
> 
> 
the acpi and interrupt problems of madwifi are history. to be fair these 
were problems of the early 2.6 kernels and not madwifis. i also tested
some cards (prism2 and prism54) and i have the best experience with the
netgear 511t and the madwifi driver.

/ds